Bottle-wrapper.



.No. 876,365, PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908.

W. D. LBGGB dz L. N. WEIL.

BOTTLE WRAPPER APPLICATION FILED JULY 30. 1906.

UNITED snares PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS N. WEIL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS TO UNIVERSAL ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF SOUTH WILLIAM D. LEGGE AND BOTTLE WRAPPER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO,

DAKOTA.

BOTTLE-WRAPPER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan. 14:, 1908.

Application filed July 30. 1906. Serial No. 328.358.

To all whom it may concern: halves to register with each other. Each Be it known that we, WILLIAM D. Lneen half is provided at its outer edge with a pair and LOUIS N. WEIL, citizens of the United of hook-shaped ears 11 and 12. These ears States of America, and residents of Chicago, are formed from the same material as the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have wrapper, and the cars at each side of the invented certain new and useful Improvewrapper preferably face in opposite direcments in Bottle-Wrappers, of which the foltions. Those on one half face away from lowing is a specification. each other, while those on the other half face The main object of this invention is to protoward each other. The lugs 11 and 12 are vide an improved and inexpensive form of so placed as to interlock with each other for bottle wrapper which is adapted to be placed securing the wrapper in its closed position as around a bottle for protecting the same om shown in Fig. 2. breakage, which is light in weight and strong The cylindrical and conical surfaces of the and is adapted to remain in its closed posiwrapper are preferably reinforced by annular tion without the use of fastening means other corrugations 13. In the modified form shown than can be made directly from the material in Figs. 5 and 6, the flanges 9 and 10 are also from which the wrapper is made and at a I corrugated to give stiffness to the ends of the single operation. wrapper. This wrapper is so formed that it We accomplish this object by the device may be readily pressed from a sheet of suitshown in the accompanying drawings, inable material by means of embossing dies, the which. sheet being then trimmed by suitable dies to Figure 1 is a view of abottle wrapper conconform with the edges of the embossed part structed according to this invention, show of the halves 7. The cutting dies are aring the same open in the form in which it is ranged to leave a hinge strip 8 between the stored or shipped. Fig. 2 is an elevation halves 7 and form the ear-s11 and 12 at the showing the wrapper in its closed position as outer edges. The method of applying this applied to a bottle. Fig. 3 is a top view of form of wrapper to abottle is as follows: The the same showing the flange for protecting bottle is first laid into the cavity in one of the the neck of the bottle. Fig. I is a bottom halves 7 and the other half is then closed view showing the form of the bottom flange. down around the bottle, one side of the wrap- Figs. 5 and 6 are views corresponding to Figs. per being sprung slightly to permit the ears 3 and 4 and show the top and bottom flanges 11 and 12 to pass into interlocking engagemodified so as to completely close the wrapment with each other. The stiffness of the per at the top and bottom. material of the wrapper holds the ears 11 and In the form shown in the drawings, the 12 into such interlocking engagement after wrap or consists of a sheet of paper, strawhaving been sprung together, the end flanges boar or other suitable material embossed to protecting the bottom and neck of the bottle form two halves 7 which are substantially The annular corrugations 13 prevent the ma semi-cylindrical throughout the greater part terial of the wrapper from buckling along of their length and have conical portions lines disposed longitudinally of the bottle, and at one end of the semi-cylindrical portions. the general curvature of the cylindrical and These halves are connected together at one conical portions of the halves 7 prevents bucedge 8 of their cylindrical portions and are kling in the direction of the corrugations 13. flanged inwardly at 9 and 10 to form a bot- WVhat I claim as my invention and desire tom and top for the wrapper. The strip 8 to secure by Letters Patent is: which connects the adjacent edges of the A bottle wrapper, comprising two similar halves 7 is preferably perforated so that the parts, having corrugated side-walls formed to wrapper may be readily bent along the line surround a bottle, said walls being provided of perforations to cause the edges of the two l with integral flanges extending inwardly at one end of the Wrapper to protect the corre- Signed at Chicago this 10th day of Februsponding end of the bottle, each of said parts ary 1906.

being provided upon one edge with a pair of WILLIAM D. LEGGE. oppositely directed hook-like ears adapted to LOUIS N. WEIL.

5 be interlocked for holding together the parts Witnesses:

of the Wrapper at one side, said parts being W. O. ROBINSON,

joined together at the opposite side. E. A. RUMMLER.v 

